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I am a lecturer in Mechanical Engingeering at Manchester Metropolitan University.
My research interests are at the interaction between engineering and mechanics with biology and physiology.
My current work focuses on whiskers, trying to understand how their shape and structure affects their performance as tactile sensors and how different whiskers might be adapted for specific environmental niches.
2016 PGCert Teaching in Higher Education. Manchester Metropolitan University.
2015 PhD. Bio-Medical Engineering. Mechanical behaviours of intervertebral discs: clinical implications of loading, injury and treatment. Manchester Metropolitan University.
2012 BEng (Hons) Mechanical Engineering. Manchester Metropolitan University.
Rana Osama S Khayat (PhD) 2019. The cause and effect of bat wing tears in common pipistrelle bats (pipistrellus pipistrellus).
EL. Starostin, RA. Grant, G. Dougill, GHM. van der Heijden, VGA. Goss (2020). The Euler spiral of rat whiskers. Science Advances. 6(3), pp.eaax5145-eaax5145.
AA. Thorpe, GM. Dougill, L. Vickers, ND. Reeves, G. Cooper, et al. C. Sammon, CL. Le Maitre. (2017). Thermally Triggered Hydrogel Injection Into Bovine Intervertebral Disc Tissue Explants Induces Differentiation Of Mesenchymal Stem Cells And Restores Mechanical Function. Acta Biomaterialia. 54, pp.212-226.
R. Grant, G. Dougill, N. Lepora (2021). Species-specific whisker morphology affects tactile interactions. IEEE Xplore. 2021 IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), pp.1149-1149.
ROS. Khayat, RA. Grant, H. Ryan, LM. Melling, G. Dougill, et al. DR. Killick, KJ. Shaw. (2020). Investigating cat predation as the cause of bat wing tears using forensic DNA analysis. Ecology and Evolution. 10(15), pp.8368-8378.
EL. Starostin, RA. Grant, G. Dougill, GHM. van der Heijden, VGA. Goss (2020). The Euler spiral of rat whiskers. Science Advances. 6(3), pp.eaax5145-eaax5145.
AA. Thorpe, GM. Dougill, L. Vickers, ND. Reeves, G. Cooper, et al. C. Sammon, CL. Le Maitre. (2017). Thermally Triggered Hydrogel Injection Into Bovine Intervertebral Disc Tissue Explants Induces Differentiation Of Mesenchymal Stem Cells And Restores Mechanical Function. Acta Biomaterialia. 54, pp.212-226.
L. Simmons, C. Diver, G. Dougill, S. Pepper, R. Phillips, et al. P. Foden. Development and Implementatio of a Collaborative Event to Enhance Graduate Employability. Online,
A. Sarfraz, G. Dougill, G. Cooper (2017). Mechanical effects of medical implants on intervertebral disc injury. In: Challenges for Technology Innovation: An Agenda for the Future - Proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Smart Manufacturing, S2M 2016. pp.341-346.
A. Sarfraz, GM. Dougill, G. Cooper (2017). Mechanical effects of medical implants on intervertebral disc injury. In: Challenges for Technology Innovation: An Agenda for the Future. Lisbon, Portugal, 20/10/2016.
GM. Dougill, A. Thorpe, K. Andrews, CL. LeMaitre, C. Sammon, et al. G. Cooper. Experimental Modelling of Intervertebral Disc Material Behaviours under Activities of Daily Living and Their Effects on Disc Health and Degeneration. Manchester, UK, 17/9/2015.
PN. Reddy, G. Dougill, A. Weightman, E. Hodson-Tole, N. Reeves, et al. G. Cooper. (2016). Experimental Modelling of Heat Generation in Porcine Tissue to Investigate the Etiology of Diabetic Foot Ulceration. In: Procedia CIRP. Manchester, ENGLAND, 29/7/2015. pp.170-173.
GM. Dougill, P. Nadipi Reddy, K. Andrews, ND. Reeves, CL. LeMaitre, et al. G. Cooper. (2016). Experimental measurement of energy dissipation in healthy and degenerate intervertebral discs. EUROPEAN CELLS & MATERIALS. 32, 67-67.
ESPRC Friction Innovation Fund. Whisker TacTip: Using robotic sensors to give insights in to biological surface interactions (2019). Co-Investigator.
ESPRC. (EP/P030203/1) Modelling the mechanics of animal whiskers (2018). Postdoctoral research associate.